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Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
A Small. But Happy Surprise.

Occasionally there are happy surprises.
They are in store for us all. They are
slow sometimes in making their appear
ance. Yet they generally come along.
The gratifying information comes from
Lincoln that the governor has signed
senate file number four, fixing the maxi
mum passenger rates in Nebraska at
three cents per mile While this has been
the rate in eastern and central Nebraska
on railroads known rs "first-class," those
living west of the Tooth meridian have
been compelled to pay four cents per
mile; while on roads rating below first
class, three and one-half cents have been
exacted throughout the state. Now all
roads in all localities in this state will
charge the same-three cents per mile.
While railway legislation is badly needed,
it has appeared from recent happenings
at the capital that no relief whatever
would be offered. This new law offers
and guarantees relief from extortionate
passenger rates in the locality where
relief is most needed. An imaginary
line is no longer considered. The bill
presumes that IN state so populous as
Nebraska there can be no 'class' of rail
roads. On the principle that half loaf
is better than none, so small slice will
be accepted if that is all that is offered or
can be obtained The reduction is not
much. 1t is little, however, and step
long needed in the right direction. And
while it is but little, it is yet happy sur,
PRISE.
The citizens of the western part OF
our state. those who open up the coun-
try and make it possible for
railroads to operate, will yet
| be compelled to suffer the outrageous
| freight charges which have crippled
them in all past years. They will be
ruthlessly plundered for two years more
And if it continues lawful for railroad
managers to swarm the state capital al
each session with their hirelings and
henchmen, the hope for relief at any
time remains dim picture. When the
interstate commerce law is put in opera
tion we shall look for a more liberal rate
But even then. with classiiications to mys
tify and experts to explain, the merchant
doing business in the country town, who
purchases small bills OF goods will nc
doubt continue to pay unreasonable tolls
The government law will regulate Ger
tain kinds of transportation. Yet abso
lutte relief cannot be offered. 1t gener
ally requires state laws to govern states
They must conform with government
laws. Certain restrictions and require
ments may be necessary in Nebraska
while in other states the needs and
wants might be directly opposite. Wha
is needed now and what has long beef
wanted IN Nebraska. is, plainly, Law
preventing railroads, operating withir
the boundaries of our state. from wreck
ing towns. plundering the populace
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

fifteen months must have n national in
terest, The situation which is described
by the Times in the Language we have
quoted appears to be due entirely to the
now celebrated letter of Mayor Hewitt,
contributed to the literary part of the
banquet of the Young Mems Democratic
club OF Brooklyn, but suppressed by the
president of the club IN Difference to
Governor Hill, and since made public by
its author. We have heretofore called
attention to this precious epistlc, sug-
gesting at the same time that it was
likely to create commotion. We are
therefore not at all surprised that it has
done so. We now supplement- our first
suggestion with the prediction that the
conlmoton created will be felt far
enough in the future to have an import
ant effect upon the democratic vote in
the next national campaign. The
present consequences are very marked,
and from Il party point OF view
serious. Mr.. Hewitt stands unfal-
teringly by the views expressed in the
letter, which were unfriendly to the
methods of organized labor, while he at
the same time reflected sharply upon
democratic leaders who uphold these
methods in order to gain the labor vote.
1t was startling attitude for so promi-
nent democrat as Mr.. Hewitt to assume,
but it is found that he has many reputable
members of the party with him. On the
other hand, some of the leading local
democrats are forcibly disclaimng any
sympathy with the attitude of Mr. Hewitt
and allcge that he misrepresents demo
cratic sentiment. A speech of one OF
these, Judge Power, delivered at dinner
| OF the county democratic committee, in
| which the cause of labor is extolled and
the policy of calling the labor vote back
is urged, is referred 20 as the true eX-
position of the feeling of the democratic
party toward labor. The friends of Gov
ernor Hill, too, are disposed to resent the
imputation upon him conveyed in the
letter of Mr.. Hewitt. Thus two factions
holding opinions sharply at variance
| have been created in the democracy OF
New York by this controversy, and
the two most prominent party leaders
of the state are distinctly ar
|
| time serious dissensions have broken
out in the ranks of the Brooklyn club
which threaten to destroy that organiza
ton. 1t is difficult to conceive of Z. more
unhappy ana inharmonious political fam
lily.
Meanwhile, what must the labor of tn,
country think of the unmasking whicl
this contention has effected? Mus
not the effect inevitably be to shak,
its confidence IN democratic profession
of friendship? Mr.. Hewitt may not hav,
been discreet in this matter, but he wa
honest He candidly confessed his hos
tility to organized labor, and with equa
candor he exposed the insincerity o
other democratic leaders who coque
with labor simply to use it.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
Not a Happy Political Family.

The New York Times is authority for
the statement that the democratic party
in that region ''is in condition of very
unstable equilibrium at has says
that journal, "more leaders than it can
safely carry, and as many opinions and
policies as there are sides to the promI-
nent public questions of the day" This
will answer very we'll as description of
the situation of the party as whole, and
still representing hostile policies regard
ing the distribution of patronage with Ran
dali and Carlisle pulling in opposite direc-
tions on the tariff, with the secretary of the
treasury arrayed against the majority OF
his party on the silver question, with the
representatives of the party in con-
gress divided into hostile factions and
waging. against each other q re-
leutless warfare, surely the democratic
party is more severely afflicted with war
ring leaders and different policies than
any other political organization in this
country has ever been. Nor does there
appear to be any promise that this situa-
ton will be improved in the near future,
On the contrary the indications are that it
is likely to become worse. Recent cir
cumstances are contributing to dissen-
sion and an increasing disturbance.
But we are Immediately concerned
about the state Of affairs in New York,
which it may be remarked has more
than local significance. Whatever sf-
fects the unity and harmony Of the de-
mocracy of New York during the next
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

BY asking for too extended scope Of
retaliation, the house pcriled the success
of the measure altogether, and it is sub.
ject for congratulation that it has re-
ceded and accepted the senate's bill,
which confined retaliation to the precise
subjects and cases involved in Canada s
unfriendly and, as we hold, illegal con-
structon of the existing treaty of 1918,
and of the commercial arrangements
made in 1880. When retaliation in kind
has been tried should it be found made
quate it can be extended. Better that
than to go too far at first.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

THE senatorial dead lock in New Jer.
sey has been broken by the election of
Rufus Bloodgett, democrat, by the aid
of republican votes. The election OF a
democrat, or no election at all, has APP
peared from the beginning to be the only
possible outcome of the contest, and in
that view the defeat of Leon Albeit, who
has resorted to every disreputable, illegal
and revolutionary party device to secure
his own election, is a subject for congrat-
ulation. In the senatorial elections so
far the net republican loss is only one.
We lose one in New Jersey, but we
gained one in Nevada. The Turpie cleo
ton IN Indiana will doubtless not stand,
and the one really lost is in California.
The republican majority in the senate is
small, but it is solid.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
Waste Of Golden Hours.

fUFVtFS lHUUUZITIB.
Like to impatient children when the sky
FrownS on some morn OF longed-fOr teStal
day
To cheat their happy hearts Of outdoor
play,
We fret when scuds of Ill above us fly,
And every cloud and menace magnify,
Til thus we waste our manhood's strength,
as they
Their zest for pleasure in some indoor
way,
Our age scarce wiser than their infancy
If we could chafe and chase the clouds afar
Rather than borrowed gloom upon them
bring.
Our gain its lack of grace might palliate,
But leave us yet with manliness at war,
That brave defiance to all fate would fling,
And by endurance make us strong and
great.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
monopolizing necessary articles Of food

monopolizing necessary articles Of food
and fuel and at the same time compel
ling them to carry products of the farm
to eastern markets only ut reaso nablo
prices. The duties of common carriers
should be defined. 1t ought not to
be their privilege to have n horde
of town-site barnaces following in
their wake preying upon prosperous
communities by eXacting "bribes' and
gifts, or wrecking towns when their
illegal demands are not granted. We
hold that railroad company has no
right 10 organize or countenance the or.
ganization of bands of vultures and bum
mers and give them its protection.
Almost every town started in Nebraska
during the last ten years has been COM
PEELED to experience the raids of these
unscrupulous schemers.
The people of this state have been long
suffering and kind. They have seen their
interests absorbed and their wishes
laughed at. They have given and given
when they knew the exactoas were legal
lied robbcrles. AS rule the masses are
slow to move. They act with caution,
but always with precision. They will
suffer Just so much and no more. Mark
this prophecy. Unless more railway
legislation is secured than the simple re-
duction of passenger tariff, there will be
grand uprising of the people two years
hence. And it will be sorry day for
those who have been so prominent this
year in defeating the peoples expressed
wants and desires
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY.

Electric light enterprises are spriEging up
by the score.
Twenty-four strikes are reported in various
parts Of the country.
TIE spinners of Fall River have sent In
their request for an advance Of wages.
Wages have been advanced at six places In
Pennsylvania within the past few days.
The Harmony mills, at Cohoes, New York.
run more looms than all the mills In the
state of Georgia.
Material for water works and gas works
and pipe material of all kinds Is IN very
active demand.
Cotton manufactures are to be built at
Charlotte, N. c., at Tuscaloosa, Ala, and
Columbus, Miss.
Some of the New England cotton goods
manufacturers are feeling the pressure Of
Georgia competition.
at no time have as many manufacturing
enterprises been projected as at this time; !;
they cover almost every branch of manu-
featuring.
An immense iron works in Illinois, nearly
opposite St. Louis, built by German syndi-
cate twelve years ago at a cost of 81 500, 600,
is to be started up.
Notwithstanding the high perfection which
the German cotton spinning Industry has
reached large number of spinners have
kept their plants running at loss.
There are nearly $50 New York journey
men plumbers receiving strike benefits, and
they have been out six months. The ap-
| premiership question IS the trouble.
A law has been passed in Maine forbidding
| any child under fifteen years of age working
| when the public schools are in session, and
| that minors under twelve years of age shall
| not be employed at any time
The Pittsburg bricklayers have agreed to
work nine hours. The puddlers are all dis
cussing the change to be made in the July
scale OF wages. Pittsburg will soon have 9Sa
| pudding furnaces in operation.
A Philadelphia firm has just closed the
largest single blast furnace contract in Ala
bama that has ever been made in America
| and work will be begun at once. twill take
nearly a year and half to complete the en-
tire work.
The makers Of mining machinery, hy-
draulic pumps, ore crushers, and of all ma.
chinery used in gold, silver, copper and coa
mining, are buster at this time than they have
| been for many years. The output OF gold
and silver is increasing.
Some of the large corporations of Massa
| chusetts propose to test the cOnstitutionalit,
OF the weekly payment act, on the ground
that III o corporation and an employe see III
to agree to monthly or any other payment.
the state has no right to interfere.
A large amount of English capital Is find
Ing investment In American mines. Tht
English are studying the mineralogy of th'
United States and are apparently determined
tn capture the most desirable mineral proba
bilites and will work them to their utmOs
capacity.
] Tho Knights of Labor movement Is pro
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

crossing steadily in the southern states.
Richmond alone has twenty-six local assem-
district assemblies which meet twice month;
There are more assemblies being organized
at the present time in the southern states
than In any other section Of the country.
The dyers' strike in Paterson Is closing
down a good many mills; there are only
about g. 900 silk operatives now at work. one
concern has given in. For all this. capital
lists are interested in silk mills and the fu-
ture of the industry seems bright. American
silks are making their way. and silk culture
is being stimulated all over the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

MIR. BOYD is playing the same old
game. He doesn't want to be renomi-
mated mayor. He would'n have the
Office if it was rendered on a silver sal
yer. But his underhanded work against
the charter shows that he is not only dis
gruntled, but has lingering
hope Of another term. Those are
his old tactics. He not
want the Office two years ago. but quietly
worked up his boom by the bogus citi-
zens' movement When he found the
council against him he threatened to re-
sign. At the end of the first year he was
still mayor, but warned everybody that
the reelection of Bechcl and majority
against him would bring disaster on
Omaha in the shape of his resignation
Bechel was reelected and the council re-
manned adverse, but the disaster has no,
vet occurred.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
Iowa Items.
The town of Wilton IS out OF debt.

The town of Wilton Is out OF debt.
Jackson county has first-class stock
of open saloons.
Wright county farmers are losing cat
tie from some unknown disease.
Hartley citizens are agitating the
question of starting cheese factory
Keokuk paid $27,975,45 in teachers
salaries for the school year just ended.
The Des Moines Leader declares that
the reports Of natural gas wells in the
state are "all vapar.'
The internal revenue collections in the
Davenport district for February
amounted to $97, ,75711.
The salaries of teachers in Des MONIES
last year amounted to S47, 7S2.08. The gas
bill was only $l7, 7,363.2O.
A permanent injunction has been is
sued against the city council of Des
Moines, prohibiting the further increase
OF the city debt.
The will of the late John c. McCaus-
land of Davenport is to be contested by
dissatisfied relatives, The usual plea Of
undue influence and diseased mind is
set up.
The Burlington assessor reports there
will be decrease of at least S30, 600 in
the amount of personal property there
this year, owing to failures, removals
and retirement from business.
The annual report of the officers of
the Dubuque Home of the Friendless
shows there were thirteen adults and
twenty one children in the institution
and the receipts were 81, 055. SO and the
expenditures S2,5s2 .O7.
Montana.
The legislature has passed bill pro.
hibiting variety shows.
Silver bar shipments from Butte for
the week ending February 26, were
valued at sll4,S32.
TIE output of the Helena Mining and
Reduction company for the last six
months of 1886 was $515, ,901 81, divided
as follows: Gold, 1864 pennyweghts
silver, 293,953 ounces; lead, 4,S50, 59t
pounds.
May next Ia set down as the time when
| the Utah Il Northern will widen OUT tc
broad guage from Pocatello to Butte. The
| advance of the main line from Dillon tc
Helena will probably commence in
earnest early = the spring.
Advlces from all parts of the territory
show that the chinook, which commenced
ON Saturday, continues with unabated
force. 1t has carried off great part O
the snow, except in the mountains. and
the cattle are again feeding and resting
l from their recent severe experiences. Thu
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

tary. Thev will attempt resistance OF
the further invasion of the rights they
claim, and the force and extent Of the
resistance will depend upon the outside
sympathy and support they can COM
mand. 1t may be feeble and short
to suggest, and yet it might become
serious. In any event, it must be re.
garded rs striking evidence of q prevail
ing temper hostile to imperial control
which is not confined to Newfoundland,
as later events will undoubtedly show
and which is very certain to grow under
the influences we have already indicated.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04
STATE AND TERRITORY,
Nebraska Jottings

NeDraSka JOttinES.
Hog cholera is again running loose in
Frontier county.
Schuyler is preparing to don the toga
of n city of the second class.
Plattsmouth is talking up a milling
company with capital Of $4,000 to
build and operate u plant in that city.
Ira Davenport, a well known politician
IN New York, has purchased tract of 134
acres of land near Fremont for $4,000.
The Nebraska City News halls the sale
of the Omaha Herald as the dawn Of
peace and good will in the democratic
ranks
A Nebraska City inventor has perfected
machine for registering hogs. He ex
poets to reap fortune among real estate
agents. Snap!
The two railroads passing through
Nemaha county, the b. e. Nj. and the
Missouri Pacific, pay $50, 900 year taxes
into the treasury of that county.
A fool burglar in Hastings, after load.
ing himself with cutlery in Brasch's
hardware store, tumbled into a yawning
cellarway and yelled for help. A police.
man helped HIM to jail.
A number of Ponca's enterprislng
small boys have put up boxes around
town which will be used as receptacles
for orders for work of all kinds which
may be suitable for the youngsters to do.
The Wymore Reporter apologies for
endorsing j. Nj. Fuller during the fall
campaign as reliable, trustworthy, hon
est man. Fuller holds down seat in the
lower house of the legislature and works
his mouth.
'Do you sell these buck wheat cakes by
the acre?" whispered rural statesman
to waiter in a Lincoln restaurant re-
Gently. mo, sab; dey hab advanced and
we holds dem by de front foot" "Well,
| give me few inches and as much depth
as the market will stand"
"Notes from ireland" is the title of an
| innocent looking little pamphlet sent
from the 'ould sod to all the daily news
paper offices IN the United States. 1t is
weekly collection of crumbs for the ia.
| bles of Irish landlords, detailing the
"valorous' deeds of the eviction army IN
| driving from their homes the aged and
bedridden, and the glorious work oi
| the flaming torch and crowbar. This
ash barrel of Irish tyranny is filled and
distributed gratis throughout the United
States by the Irish Loyal and Patriotic
union." Scratch it and you will find IN
Orangeman and an internal opponent ol
his countrys progress, or an Irish rene
| gade purchased by the queens shilling
Notes fill small space in the waste bas
| ket
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

THERE is brief reference in q recent
number Of Science to remarkable case
In which the breath of an individual, or
rather the eructations from his stomach,
took fire when brought in contact with a
lighted match. The article did not say,
but it is supposed the person referred to
was u Lincoln lobbyist.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

In the Chicago Times of last Monday
appeared special from Lincoln with a
sensational report about alleged bribery
in the senatorial campaign. Several
members of the lower house were named
ss having been offered bribes in the in
terest of General Van Wyck. Two OF
these members were promptly inter
viewed by the editor of the BEE about
this report, and both very emphatlcally
declared that they knew nothing what
ever that would in any way justify such
. report concerning themselves. They
expressed much surprise that their names
should be coupled with such charge
and thought that 1t emanared from 9
sensational reporter. Now another party
hankering after uotoriety. has struck the
Ame mares nest, but he cautiously re
Rains from naming his informant.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

THE Rev. Henry Ward Beccher after
endorsing certain brands of soap rs "su-
peror,h now comes to the front attesting
the excellence of certain newspapers.
Mr.. Beecher, IN his way, is a wonderful
man. 1t might be added that as yet he
has not endorsed either of our esteemed
contemporaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

AMONG the proceedings of the last day
Of the forty, in which bills may be intro
duced, it is written that "Mr. Colby in
troduced two new bills" OF the several
hundred presented by the Gage county
statesman an ANXIOUS public wonders
how many of them will be passed.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-04

AND now Russell Sage is in trouble.
A woman for whom he speculated, sues
HIM for losses sustained by what she is
pleased to term his "bull. headed ignor-
ance." Before Mr.. Sage is through
with this matter, he will doubtless be-
heve that woman is greater institution
than our navy.